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Show 0 FORGET IFFERENGES rresh,ytcrians and frytcrinn Body ! Together. Obstacles St) BE OVERCOME if me. There J.s No St ' What the fould Occur. . FEANCIS. The Tribune, arch J-. There are tlic longings after a gst nil Christian pco-ji pco-ji in evidence so much tjon a very deckled jy. you have been fol-fb'n fol-fb'n In the newspapers iftaeles In the way of i Cumberland Presliy- tain Presbyterian body. bodies of Christians i Ja not the least pos-they pos-they wish to forget 1 combine their forces, E to the real property Jpf cither of the two - n'tld Rivo up their old ji appellation there has m cueslon Th" supreme iThaS handed down an H it. the matter. I think t! dcrs will asree with 1 (of Chicago In Us cdl-1 cdl-1 ict. q tiirc of the refusal of i reme court to sanction jbcrlaml Presbyterians "sbyterlan body Is that ?resbyiorhn, a weekly it Nashville, falls now Jfctlic advocates of ill-ccn ill-ccn hi no small part ble altitude of the old-Ithat old-Ithat the union of the jodlcs has been brought rn'c courts of tlve stutcs tiie union valid: but (has reached the con-ur con-ur confirmed the prop-aPrcsbytcrIans prop-aPrcsbytcrIans In the rity which held to the The publishing house, fepcr, now goes to the frgaii which has been actor in favor of unity 0s have fought bitterly '. The editor, the Rev. iD. D.. has anticipated ccsslty for retiring by iKhatlon. and has taken (Ktabllshlng a new perl-Urtcrlnn perl-Urtcrlnn Advance, which i policy which has led he two bodies In many ecare for the cause of fniust bcv disturbed by the Tennessee supreme lenomlnaUonalism to be lliu part. If the courts fcfiby which mergers of jpw distinct can be le-fc le-fc outlook for ultimate lublous in the extreme, .ttrcme courts of other llaisumed this, attitude; ? Jinot prevent Christian ng together, whatever Jthelr property. Every hat had been distinct, I f. are merged Into one. X&y when the church In is brought slightly ,j Foreign Missions. in the custom for the committees which have had the responsibility respon-sibility of caring for the various foreign missions of the Christian church to get out an annual budget or general estimate of the probable expenses for the ensuing year and then lay their plans Tor obtaining obtain-ing the money to meet these obligations by assigning lo various Individuals or various portions of the people to whom they bad learned to look for support such a proportion of the amount Involved nn their experience had taught them could reasonably be expected. In certain religious re-ligious bodies this method has assumed the more businesslike arrangement of a. distinct apportionment decided upon by the supposed ability of the different portions por-tions of the church to respond to the demands. A new chord was tvoonlrfy struck by Bishop Brent of the Philippine Islands, who sulci that while this method of apportioning money was all very well and had approved Itself by the excellent results that bad been nblafned. nevertheless neverthe-less he thought 11 much more serious matter was an ' anportlonmenl of men. Bishop llrent has a way of striking out straight from tho shoulder, and Ik said thai he thought if a community was really in earnest In the matter of missions, mis-sions, that supposed earnestness ought lo tako the form of assuming a distinct obligation to ome forward with a certain cer-tain number of men who would be their quota year by year In the matter or .actual representation in the mission Hold. It w-as llnely put. and enthusiastic replies re-plies have been heard from all directions. direc-tions. The most practical response that has been evoked comes In a letter which was recently printed In the very forefront fore-front of the Now York Churchman. 1 think It Is of sufficient Importance and Interest to be given to you In full. Need More Clergymen, "The space and attention which vuu have given to Bishop Brent's convincing appeal for 'an apportionment of men' prompts me to offer a practical suggestion. sugges-tion. Bishop Boets of Mankow Is Just now asking for thirteen more clergymen. This is a very modest appeal for a district dis-trict the. population of which is almost equal to that or the whole United Slates. He wants two men for work In the divinity di-vinity school and eleven others for several sev-eral other varieties of work, educational, evangelistic, archldlaconal parochial and pioneer. Why cannot our seven largest semlinrles at once, between them, make up the number required? I write down a suggested apportionment. If any seminary semi-nary feels that It has been assigned too few let It send more. Here Is the list: Genera! Theological scminarv. f!; Cambridge. Cam-bridge. 2: Philadelphia. 2; Virginia, 2; Berkeley, 1: Xasholah. 2; Sewanee, 1. Total. 13. Which seminary will take the lead In making up this modest number? Or, better still, what seminary will send all thirteen and help to tako advantage of the vast tide, of opportunity which Is now rolling by us In China? The opportunity oppor-tunity Is now It will never come again. " ID L" I) LEY TYXG. "Wuchang. .Ian. 13. 1010." An Inspiring Opportunity. The above letter offers an inspiring opportunity to the seminaries. It should not be called a testing of the seminaries. Remembering the enormous field from which the appeal comes, and that the work of the missionary district of Hankow Han-kow doubled in four years, and that we hae only fifteen American priests in this field, the appeal should command an Immediate response. Wo havo at home 6000 clergymen. Here Is a foreign field where the work grow fourfold In four years. Ts there such a record in the entire home church? Tn tho last year there were GS5 baptisms: 252 confirmations. con-firmations. It has In Its schools, 1391 day scholars: SO" boarding scholars. The natives contributed S4S52.-10 to the work; the foreigners, 51520.(55. Hankow ' has fifteen foreign and thirteen native priests; one foreign and eight native deacons; thirty-four missionary teachers, and forty-seven native catnchlsts and assistants: assis-tants: and their combined work has created cre-ated an Immediate demand for thirteen more clergymen. What Might Be Expected. If the present force has accomplished results like these, what might be expected expect-ed If this insistent demand for thirteen additional workers were answered, and answered now? Bishop Brent has inaugurated in-augurated the policy of having an apportionment ap-portionment of men, and we trust that every mission field will adopt his policy and put It before the church In concrete form .as Mr. Tyng Is doing for Wuchang. Is It right that the church should give over fiOOO ministers for 03.000.000 people In America, while it sends less than 100 priests to more than half of the people of the world, who have never heard of Christ: about one ordained priest for every 1.000.000 of our homo population. No more real opportunity could come to the American church than Bishop Brent presents. If the church enlers upon Ibis opportunity It will lift Itself to a new plane of Christian energy, to a new standard stan-dard of Christian faith and dependence of God. The pettv anxieties, the faithless faith-less fear for the faith, the belief that the progress of the kingdom of God Is tied up with the red tape of humanly devised laws all these things and those who stand for them will take their place In the shadows of the night, while the church moves forward in divine light and guidance. " Eucharistic Congress. This year the International Kucha -ristlc congress Is lo be held at Montreal, and already a largo number of English Roman Catholics arc making preparations prepara-tions to be present. The papal legate will make his entry into Montreal on Monday, September 5. and will be solemnly sol-emnly received by the ecclesiastical dignitaries dig-nitaries tho following day. On Wednesday. Wednes-day. September 7. there Is to be a reception re-ception ljy the civic authorities, and at midnight high mass will be celebrated at the cathedral of Notre Dume. which will accommodate some 10,000 people. On the three following days the usual sessions of the congress will take, place, there being on tho Friday pontlllcial high mass in the open air in Manse park, when sermons ser-mons will be preached in French and English. Tho congress concludes on the Sunday, oh which day there will bo a great procession through the streets of Montreal. The papal legate will bo con-veved con-veved in a chariot drawn by six white horses. It Is expected that the archbishop arch-bishop of Westminster and several other members of the English hierarchy will take part in the congress. |
